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Amazon Web Services (AWS): S3, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, VPC and more

News, articles and tools covering Amazon Web Services (AWS), including S3, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudFormation, AWS-CDK, Route 53, CloudFront, Lambda, VPC, Cloudwatch, Glacier and more.

398k subscribers610 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)480 authors / mosince 2008

r/aws has 398k members (+11% over the last 12 months). It gets about 610 posts a month from 480 people. Top topics: AWS Cloud Technologies, AWS Serverless Functions and AWS Cloud Services.

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Size and growth

How r/aws has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+11%in 12 months · +1.8% in 3 months · +0.4% in 1 month
Oct 2026398k
Growing398k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−21%vs Sep 2025 · −20% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026610
QuieterPeaked at 1.4k in May 2024
Sep 2026: incl. <1% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/aws

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. AWS Cloud Technologies15%
  2. AWS Serverless Functions11%
  3. AWS Cloud Services5.1%
  4. AWS Certification Path1.0%
  5. AWS Certification Prep0.9%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Amazon Web Services, Inc.
  2. Medium
  3. theregister
  4. LinkedIn
  5. Example

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